Power Station

Joe Munroe · 1940

Here we have Power Station — a photograph by Joe Munroe, nineteen forty. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray. You can pick out the factory.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 11 5/8 × 10 1/2" (29.5 × 26.7 cm) · Credit Photography Purchase Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 519: Through Coleman Hollow up the Allegheny Valley, Gas

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Anonymous Sculpture, Steel Elevator and Shed - near Abilene, Texas, American Landscape, Stock Market. Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story, Lodz